DeSmuME 0.9 released!

This new release is the product of hundreds of new code improvements: We now have an almost 100% reworked 3D core, which is shared amongst all ports for the first time, and have better save states. Compatibility has been improved across the board. The huge number of reworked systems and small fixes is noticeable on some games and homebrew games are running better–or even running at all for the first time. And this work has not stopped, so stay tuned for what’s coming in the future!

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First time ever I use a ds emulator, but I’m very impressed so far! Just tried playing the first PW game – runs very smoothly and with minimal cpu usage. I’ve got a 4 year old P4 3.6 too, but that didn’t seem to cause any probs either. Great program!

Please make DeSmuME more compatible with Homebrew Games and of course with more on commercial games and don’t just use OpenGL as the 3D use something else like, DirectDraw, D3D, GDI and more functions like on Dualis or something, but it’s yet one of the best and existing DS emulators I have ever seen, keep it up!!!

I find desmume the best free emulator available for homebrew development. But devkitpro r24 is using something not yet emulated.

Devkitpro r23 worked great on desmume. Examples in nds-examples were running as expected.

Now, libnds as shipped with devkitpro r24 stopped working on desmume. I thought it had to do with the builtin dswifi support in new releases of default-arm7. But I reduced the arm7 program to the minimal expression ant it still fails to communicate touch screen events to the ARM9. Nocash emulator works.

I found that desmume 0.8 is able to run the nds-examples in devkitpro r24 but desmume 0.9 fails to communicate data through the FIFO between the arm7 and the arm9. E.g. touchscreen does not work (try templates/arm9 o templates/combined).

hi. i’m sorry about my poor english skill.
I have a problem of controller.
i wanna useup=w,down=s,left=a,right=d,
and jklyuip buttons. but there are no exist u an left in the
controller menu…
how can i use it?

I am happy to see another emulator that is approaching the speed and compatibility that NO$GBA had before it was discontinued. There’s only one DS game that I would like to play on an emulator, and that game is Advance Wars: Days of Ruin. The current version of Desmume actually does a better version than the old NO$GBA and with a few more tweaks it looks like it will run as well on my computer as on the DS itself… keep up the good work!